Posted on 12/04/2023 7:11:06 AM PST by Red Badger
Tesla, X, and Space X CEO Elon Musk condemned the arrest of Siaka Massaquoi, a California-based actor and activist, who was arrested at the airport over the weekend while returning home from the premiere of Daily Wire’s Lady Ballers.
Massaquoi — who has contributed to the conservative news site Red State and appeared in videos for Prager U Daily Wire and other outlets — was arrested on four misdemeanor charges related to “trespassing” and “parading” in the Capitol on January 6. For these crimes, Massaquoi was arrested in front of his pregnant wife and perp-walked through the airport nearly three years after the January 6 Capitol protests.
According to California-based activist Lori Mills, Massaquoi was placed in shackled and leg irons before being arraigned alongside drug dealers and violent criminals. The FBI previously raided his house in the weeks following the protests, though charges were not brought until two years later.
Massaquoi’s arrest has sparked outrage among conservatives and drawn attention from Elon Musk, who wrote “this has gone too far” in response to a news report on his arrest.
“I couldn’t believe this when I heard it. This political persecution can’t be allowed to continue,” said the Babylon Bee’s Seth Dillon. He then linked to a GiveSendGo fund for Massaquoi’s legal defense, which has raised $44,101 in donations as of this report.
In total, the Biden Department of Justice has charged more than 1,400 Americans over the January 6 Capitol protests and minor riot. The FBI continues to utilize pre-dawn SWAT raids for non-violent trespassers while at least four defendants have committed suicide over the excessive charges they were facing.
No similar measures have been used against left-wing protesters who stormed the White House and dozens of federal buildings across the nation during the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlDWzN6TW5Y&list=PLf0ejejfF_wYRhBwtSwvNBPGyA95Ll7mt
Too bad we don’t have any real Americans in the Republican controlled Congress, Hell just having an American as Speaker would go along way to fix this travesty.
He could bring in Wray, hold him in CONTEMPT of CONGRESS, and JAIL HIS ASS, just to bring him back before the Committee every single day in an Orange Jumpsuit, Leg Irons and Shackles...to resume testimony...
“U.S. CODE
TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 6—CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS
Sec. 193. Privilege of witnesses
No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he shall be examined by either House of Congress, or by any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or by any committee of either House, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.”
Simply look up Hinds Precedents, especially chapters 53 and 51, and Cannon’s Precedents, especially chapters 184-185. You’ll find numerous detailed cases of Congress asserting its power, arresting people, holding them until they agreed to answer questions, and then releasing them. Some of these people did not refuse to appear, but simply failed to satisfactorily answer questions.
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.” http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
In 1857, a New York Times reporter refused to say which members of Congress had asked him to get them bribes (protecting his “sources” just as various Judith Millers today protect the people who feed them proven lies that costs thousands of lives), so Congress locked him up until he answered and then banned him from Congress.
In 1924 an oil executive appeared but refused to answer certain questions, so the Senate held — literally held — him in contempt. Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana argued that this question of contempt was of the gravest importance, and that it involved “the very life of the effective existence of the House of Representatives of the United States and of the Senate of the United States.” The matter was taken to court, and the witness fined and imprisoned.
An extraordinary businessman and tech dreamer, Elon Musk seems to be discovering that conservatives are correct on the issues. This is beginning to cause him no end of trouble.
Pictures of bananas are racist! Monkeypox is a racist term! Denying your racism is racist! Admitting your racism is racist! Everything is racist! White supremacists are everywhere!
Not to worry. The GOP is on it. Anytime now they will have hearings about the tortures, killings, FBI inflators, and heavy-handedness. Just not yet though.
Hope those-who-are-only-following-orders are proud of themselves.
Musk prevents them from totally censoring the Internet so they can win the election.
Some day he’s going to be thrown in the dungeon.
We can look forward to decades of 6 Jan arrests. The U.S. government still has an agency to track down Nazi criminals. Meanwhile the perpetrators of the Katyn Forest Massacre where 20,000 Poles were murdered were still receiving pensions well into the 21st Century.
“””The GOP is on it.”””
Has the GOP leadership stood enmass in front of the capital of the United States, in front of all the news cameras and pounded the podium and demanded Justice for these people?
No they haven’t because they’re part of the criminal ruling class.
He could bring in Wray, hold him in CONTEMPT of CONGRESS, and JAIL HIS ASS, just to bring him back before the Committee every single day in an Orange Jumpsuit, Leg Irons and Shackles...to resume testimony...
The phrase, “Oh we couldn’t do something like that…” will be written on this country’s epitaph. Because the good people refused to save this country via the types of measures that were essential to its very founding, the country was lost. The refusal to acknowledge both the dire nature of our situation, and the severity of the actions necessary to correct it, will be the ultimate cause of our doom.
We are being ruled (yes “ruled”, not “led”) by lawless tyrants who are no less tyrannical than any who have come before them in world history. In a sane society these people would be rounded up and prosecuted for treason, followed by public execution if found guilty. These tyrants will not stop, and will in fact just further increase their lawlessness, unless and until the People unambiguously reassert their sovereignty.
Precisely.
IâÂÂm with Elon.
BLM Rioters Who Torched An Atlanta Wendy’s Get Probation, $500 Fine From Fulton County Judge
Well Elon, it has ALL gone too far- way too far! Peaceful protestors should never have been arrested and charged with false accusations of sedition or insurrection! At worst they should have been fined, but even that is debatable because THEY WERE LED INTO THE CAPITOL BUILDING BY COPS!
There were a few who committed crimes, no doubt, but the vast majority of the protestors were not vio.ent or destructive! Those that were were almost assuredly antifa, blm or agents dressed like maga supporters!
The GOP doesnt want to have this fight. They’ve moved on. The Washington Generals are only there for theater. Well, it ain’t over til this travesty of justice is corrected.
America is nothing more than the latest—and perhaps the last—grand experiment that has ended with the realization that the Bible is true. Mankind is totally incapable of self-rule.
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